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School Leadership in Times of Uncertainty: A School Principal’s Reflections from Cyprus
This chapter offers insights into educational leadership in relation to school principals, who play an important role as leaders in this new digital...
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New Kids on the Block: Refugee Students’ School-Based Experiences and Engagement in an Urban High School
Schools have been deemed as influential institutions for refugee youth. However, refugee students face many challenges adjusting to the US...
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How to Institutionalize a Whole School Approach to ESD
The literature on whole school approach (WSA) to education for sustainable development (ESD) has mainly been practice-based, lacking empirical and...
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Inclusive Permeable School Environments
Is it possible to conceive a school as an urban ecosystem? We developed a research by design experience, focused on a architectural project of a...
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The Globe School
Democratic education fosters agency and ownership of the learning experience in each individual student. The school model proposed in this chapter...
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School improvement at the next level of work: the struggle for collective agency in a school facing adversity
School improvement depends, fundamentally, upon collective agency—a group capability to work productively together and solve problems. Unfortunately,...
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The School Systems Remix: Building Democratic School Systems Through Hip-Hop
4 Learning is the sister nonprofit to the High School for Recording Arts, a public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, that has been working to...
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A Makerspace walks into a high-school: a case study of the micropolitics of school reform
Adoption of Maker programs entails deep cultural and structural changes within schools. In this case study, we interviewed a principal and seven...
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Organization Climate and Decision Making
The climate of an organization, which creates stimuli and evokes emotions (whether positive or negative), is influenced by that organization’s...
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Getting policy done in educational practice: What happens when multiple central government policies meet clusters of organization routines in schools
This paper develops a new, broader, and more realistic lens to study (lacking) linkages between government policy and school practices. Drawing on...
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The Arthurdale School
By the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, Elsie Ripley Clapp had begun her work at the new Ballard School, near Louisville, Kentucky. This work,...
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International Contexts of School Leaving
In this chapter, an overview of public education systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA focuses on disability-related services during the...
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Why is school leadership key to transforming education? Structural and cultural assumptions for quality education in diverse contexts
Failing to recognize the role of leaders in quality and equitable schooling is unfortunate and must be redressed. Leadership is fundamentally about...
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Comprehensive school physical activity program technology practice questionnaire (CSPAP-TPQ)
A large body of research shows that physical activity helps school-aged children and adolescents improve their health and academic performance, and...
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School quality and COVID-19-related compensatory measures
In response to the proven negative effects of COVID-19-related school closures on students’ learning, Germany launched a 2-billion-euro catch up...
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Postcritical school leadership encounters
Establishing quality education as a human right, public undertaking, and common good representative of humanity and the planet through imagining a...
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Teaching School Psychology to Psychologists
In this chapter, we offer some insights for teaching psychology and training school psychologists. Five points are made. The first one is about the...
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Secondary School Mathematics Learning
Learning mathematics is an extremely complex process of psychological activity. Some laws of psychology are of great significance to guide secondary...
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The influence of the whole school approach on implementing education for sustainable development in Japan
This research investigates the influence of the whole school approach (WSA) on the education for sustainable development (ESD) practices of teachers...
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“This space is definitely a difference”: the effects of a new building on school climate
The design of a school’s physical space can improve student climate, influencing not only teachers’ work, but also students’ learning experiences....
